Health Access Blog

We take a break from healthcare news this week to Congratulate Jimmy Walker for winning his first Golf Major this Sunday at the PGA Championship at Baltusrol in Springfield, New Jersey. (The Scots must be happy!) Mr. Walker shot a -14 under par for the tournament earning him a wire-to-wire victory that capped a season […]

Guest Blog courtesy of Holy Cross Health announcing Norvell V. Coots, MD, as their new President and CEO – (Silver Spring, Maryland) – The Holy Cross Health Board of Directors announced today that Norvell V. Coots, M.D., will be the new President and CEO of Holy Cross Health, succeeding Kevin J. Sexton, who is retiring […]

Ever wonder why Health IT hasn’t revolutionized healthcare as IT has most every industry in the world? We do – and finding how IT can still improve healthcare is one of the reasons Health Solutions Research exists. Information Technology, and advances in technology in general,typically decreases costs throughout the value chain from supplier through consumer, […]

In 2013, Medicare learned through a Congressional report prepared by the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) that it was paying substantially more for certain medical procedures in an outpatient setting than the program paid for procedures performed in a physician’s office. An outpatient setting is defined as being a medical facility that is more than […]

I had the pleasure of attending the Cannabis World Congress and Business Expo (#CWCBExpo) at the Jacob Javits Convention Center in New York City from June 14th-17th recently and learned a great deal about all aspects of the growing legal Cannabis industry. The cannabis industry is taking shape at the state level, and at the […]

We have launched our first crowd funding campaign – to fund our Cannabis clinical trials. Take a look. HSR has designed a series of human-subject clinical trial to assess the efficacy of Cannabis towards the treatment of Chronic Arthritic Pain. We need to raise $250,000 to perform the first trial. While the trail may cost […]

Much of our discussions with people – whether with providers, payers, regulators, potential collaborators & fellow researchers, or just people we come across at networking events – revolve around a specific project we’re working on rather than the overall mission and vision of our firm. I suppose that’s natural to some extent and several of […]

CBS Evening News with Scott Pelley is doing a multi-part series on opioid addiction in America, “In the Shadow of death: Jason’s Journey”. The series documents Jason’s, a heroin addict, road to recovery, and offers an honest and stark portrayal of the life of an addict. Many who succumb to addiction, do so not through […]

We congratulate the US Senate for both drawing attention to and taking bipartisan and near unanimous action on America’s growing opioid abuse problem. Measures need to be taken on this epidemic and discussion on what the right measures are must be held. We feel that its important to note that pain is often best treated, […]

The accuracy rate for information contained within an electronic health records system (EHR) is only 50%. That is, only half that data can be assumed to be accurate – the rest is wrong. A February 27th article in Modern Healthcare highlights some of the reasons why, within an Emergency Room (ER) setting at least- • […]

Up until recently, most discussions on improving the US healthcare system focused almost solely on medical care. However, non-medical factors may lead to poor health and poor health outcomes. These factors, called social determinants of health, have only recently started receiving attention, and include (among others): • Living conditions – condition of housing • Isolation […]

Escalating healthcare costs are driving companies to collect and analyze “big data” on their employees in an effort to predict who may be at risk of expensive health complications and encourage those employees to alter their behavior to make healthier life choices – such as diet, activity level, etc. Perhaps an individual’s online activity, purchasing […]